Tag: Bret Easton Ellis
Peter Loew in Vampire’s Kiss As A Forerunner of Patrick Bateman
The 1980s were a liberal time, though it might not have seemed so as it was happening. Smoking in offices, calling women cunts openly and [Read More…]
The Best Pieces of Pop Culture with the Word “American” In It
People love to slap the word “American” in front of their shit. I guess it just somehow makes their art seem more serious or meaningful. [Read More…]
Celebrating Lindsay Lohan’s Triumph in Making It Past 27
Twenty-seven proved to be a disappointingly tame year for Lindsay Lohan. For someone who had spent most of her twenties living in a drug-addled haze [Read More…]
Twitter Activism As A Reflection of Our Generation’s Laziness
It’s all very nice and well-intentioned to create activist-oriented hashtags like #YesAllWomen, but it’s also completely ineffectual. The current era’s total lack of involvement in [Read More…]
Is It Impossible for Modern Writers to be Considered Intellectual?
While writers bear a certain amount of self-deprecation, self-doubt and self-loathing, they also possess a fair amount of ego. After all, what could be more [Read More…]
Does Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York Still Resonate in Modern New York?
Tama Janowitz, a member of the literary Brat Pack crème de la crème, released the novel, Slaves of New York, in 1986. A selection of intertwining stories, [Read More…]